'Mirror' writing...?

[FantasticFox]

My 4.8yo DS has been able to write his name confidently and independently for about 6 months.

At the weekend we were at a play centre, they had a colouring competition and DS took part. He wrote his name on the back, however he wrote it as if it were a 'mirror image'. The word was backwards and the letters backwards. Perfectly neat. I didn't mention it to him because he scarped off to play as soon as he was done...but it's been niggiling me since. Has anyone had experience of this?

TIA

My dd used to do this all the time, it took a while before she wrote the right way round.
She is left handed, and I think it's common in left handed dc.

My two eldest both did this - sometime writing normally with their right hand, and simultaneously mirroring it with their left. I put it down to them being ambidextrous (they both went to the left in the end). At 8 and 10, one has beautiful handwriting, and one has a drunken spider's scrawl.

It is common in left-handed dc. My right-handed ds1 also does it. Sometimes he just starts at the wrong side of the paper, and carries on. It's quite impressive sometimes.

I'm trying to teach him to notice when he does it (he is 5.9) but as he appears to be able to read just as well upside-down, back to front, or mirrored, this is hard!

He's right handed, and wrote it with his left hand. He didn't seem to notice! I thought it was strange also because he's been able to write for a good while and I've never seen him do it before

Glad he's not the only one though! Thank you!

My right handed DD used to do this occasionally. It does make you go at the time but really its nothing to worry about

My ds did this particularly early on - I used to get pictures home from nursery which, to me, clearly had his name written on backwards - but because the teacher hadn't regognised this fact, they didn't realise. I think he might have LH tendencies too...